The stat guardians at IDC are among the most certain sources for keeping track of the latest developing in the smartphone market, but we've got to say their forecasts haven't always benefited from the same accuracy. It's with this disclaimer that we present you the world of 2015 as seen through the IDC prism. In just four years' time, says the data, Windows Phone 7 (or whatever version it reaches by then) will have ascended to occupy a fifth of the market and second spot overall behind Android, whose leading locale is expected to stabilize somewheres around the 45 percent mark. Apple and RIM are hang over to hold steady with shares close to where they are today. It has to be humbling for the IDC, which predicted Symbian would restart to direct all the way into 2013, to now have to foretell of its almost implicit extinction (a mere 0.2 percent) and total irrelevance in the smartphone market. Alas, while the new projection sounds very levelheaded today, four years of unknown unknowns is a mighty long time to try and forecast through, and we have a feeling we'll be looking back and chortle at this within a few short months -- possibly (hopefully!) in the midst of a massive webOS revival.

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